In order to detect dark matter and answer other fundamental questions about our universe, engineers and scientists from all over the world have come together to build the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) which will be installed on the International Space Station (ISS) in 2011.

The video presents the main features and goals of AMS in its search for the missing universe, introducing elements of physics and history of science.

What's the difference between mass and weight? Do objects have weight in space? Students using ESAs 'Take Your Classroom into Space' kit and this video recorded in the unique environment of the ISS can now find out. The experiment was proposed by Greek, Belgian and Spanish teachers who participated to the ESA competition 'Take Your Classroom into Space'. http://www.esa.int/esaHS/education.html

Gravity has something to do with capillary action, but what? Students using ESAs 'Take Your Classroom into Space' kit and this video recorded in the weightlessness envirnoment of the ISS can now find out. The experiment was proposed by a Belgian and Italian teachers who participated to the ESA competition 'Take Your Classroom into Space'.
http://www.esa.int/esaHS/education.html

Manned space missions to the Moon and beyond are currently being researched. Over the next decades the first man on Mars could be science fact - not science fiction.
This extraordinary step for mankind will need some amazing advances in technology and engineering. And it is not just interplanetary spacecraft and habitats that we need to develop and build to explore these hostile environments.
It is also a question of ‘what will be for dinner on Mars’?
On the International Space...

We are all space travellers flying around the Sun at 107,000 km per hour. Our spaceship is the Earth and our bodies have evolved to live on this amazing craft.
We now have the capability of leaving planet Earth. However, if man is to live in space and travel to other planets, we must learn how to survive for long periods of time out there; we have to recreate in space the vital ingredients for life on Earth. Future space vehicles and space habitats will need advanced life support...

Early in 2008, an Ariane 5 rocket blasted off from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. The rocked carried the most sophisticated lorry ever built – the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle, the ATV.
From its first flight, ATV will play a vital role in International Space Station (ISS) servicing. Every 12 months or so, the ATV will haul 7.5 tonnes of cargo to the ISS, 400 km above the Earth.
The video - addressed mostly to the youngsters- tells the story of a very...